I just got back from a reading at the Barnes and Noble in the Edina Galleria. My friend Lorna Landvik was reading from her new book 'Mayor of the Universe' (fun read, good Christmas gift).
Listening to Lorna talk I started to feel guilty about my own writing....

Saturday September 8th, 2012
I was so lucky to see 'Translunar Paradise' in Edinburgh.' It's one of those theater pieces that will haunt me. It was by Theatre Ad Infinitum.

I'll try and describe it, but I'll fall short. It was a 3 person piece..... a man and...

Tuesday September 4th, 2012
Mabel's first day of 8th grade today, and all went well. The days leading up to today were full.
Finding a few minutes to type isn't easy.

Anyway... first, some thank you notes.

1 Glenn. None of the Edinburgh trip would...

Thursday August 30th, 2012

There's 2 small notebooks with jottings about shows and sights and sounds that I'll be looking through and posting from for the next couple of days. The highs... the lows... the sticky toffee pudding. But first I'll be driving my mom back to Dead Lake (unfortunate...

Monday August 27th, 2012
I think I have an art injury....Well, not a permanent injury. I have 'art neck' That's what I'll call it. Or maybe 'Picasso neck?'
I went to the Scottish National Gallery, and then the Scottish Modern (just building one, not both of them). That's...

Sunday August 26th, 2012
It must be said, this Fringe adventure would never have happened if Glenn and I hadn't attended a 1989 Edinburgh Fringe performance of 'Withering Looks', a brilliant and ridiculously funny play written by that dynamic duo Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding, also known as LipService....

Friday August 24th, 2012

I sure hope the 'blog cops' don't collar me for not posting anything last night. It wasn't premeditated or anything.... just exhaustion. We did manage to see two shows yesterday. In addition to the one I perform in and the one I run sound and lights...

Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Reviews for 'The Property Known As Garland' are coming in, and they are so great. 5 stars, 4 stars, and they say wonderful things like "crystal clear performance," "tour de force", "ferocious energy and considerable presence." I'm so grateful, so blessed, and so not willing...

Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

We had a really fun day today. The show went well. Not a huge crowd, but very friendly. Our show was reviewed by Broadway Baby and they gave it four stars! Plus we got a great review from The Stage too. They don't give stars out...

Monday August 20th, 2012

The show that used to run right before ours, (Marvelous Medicine), closed last Saturday, and so there's no show before ours in Theatre 3, at theSpace@ Surgeon's Hall. So, instead of having six minutes to put up our set and check lights and sound system, we...

Sunday August 19th
Went to a super depressing play about suicide. Didn't really know what I was getting myself in for. There was this LONG line of people waiting to get in to this play. (they call that a queue here)
Anyway, I thought might as well...

Our final show of this week was today. We only have one week left to go! I can't believe how fast the time is going. Today's show (The Property Known As Garland) went really well, and then Glenn was going to run lights and sound for 21A, so I got...

We got to talk to our daughter Mabel tonight! She's been at Girl Scout camp for 13 days. We were able to email her, but she could not send any emails to us. It's nice to know she's home safe and sound. She enjoyed the rock climbing and the kayaking,...

Wednesday August 15th, 2012

Well the lovely dentist at the NHS glued my tooth back on for 30 pounds. She was very nice (they were all very nice, from the receptionist to the nurses) but she did make this comment:

Nice lady dentist: "This is a beautiful bit of...

Tuesday August 14th, 2012
The days really fly past here. Today's performance of 'The Property Known As Garland' went really well. 16 people in, and they were lively. It helps so much when the audience is responsive. Today was a day off from 21A, so Glenn and I decided...

Monday August 13, 2012

Right after my show, if I hurry, I can have a cup of tea and maybe peanut butter toast, before I head down to GHQ to run sound and lights for 21A. Today, I was finishing my tea, and thought I'd treat myself to a few...

Sunday August 12th, 2012
Everything I mentioned yesterday was true. The part that might seem slightly deceptive is the fact that there were only 5 people in the audience. But in one regard, that makes it even more special that they yelled 'Bravo'. Here's the thing. This trip is...

Saturday August 11th, 2012

We had a great show this morning. (The Property Known As Garland) The audience loved it, and some people even yelled 'Bravo' during the curtain call. One really nice guy told me he thought I did a better job at being Judy than Traci Bennet. High...

So my friend Mike coins all these phrases and words. He speaks what seems like his own language. Marcotte-isms you could call them. A word he uses to describe anything British, is 'Faversham'. As in "Mansfield Park is totally Faversham". Mike had seen that one episode of the Beverly Hillbillies...

August 9th, 2012
We went to the Mosque Kitchen again for supper tonight. They have a 5 pound bowl of 3 veggie curries, plus rice on the bottom. We share the meal, and it's delicious and just the right amount of food for us when you add a garlic...